Nagarjun Municipality Investigates High Fees at Institutional Schools Including NIC Academy
Kathmandu. The municipality has taken serious interest in the issue of institutional schools including NIC Academy operating within Nagarjun Municipality charging exorbitant fees against the standards. The municipality has shown serious interest in this matter after news surfaced that NIC Academy was collecting fees outside the standards.
Deputy Mayor of the municipality, Sushila Adhikari, said that she has called the stakeholders and sought clarification and is preparing to intensify the monitoring. Following complaints of collecting fees beyond the municipality's education directive and standards, Deputy Mayor Sushila Adhikari said she would take strict action.
Regarding the issue of charging fees much higher than the standards, Adhikari said, 'We have clearly informed the principals and operators of the schools by calling them to the office that they cannot charge more fees than prescribed according to government standards and classification (A, B, C categories),' she said.
She argued that instructions have been given to immediately stop such activities, as there have been complaints that some schools send bills of up to 40 to 50 thousand rupees annually for Saraswati Puja or other various titles in addition to the annual fees.
'The municipality will prioritize regular and surprise inspections in the coming days. I myself am preparing to go for an on-site inspection of the schools with representatives from the education branch,' she said.
However, the principal of NIC Academy, Sugandha Raj Regmi, claimed that the school has charged fees according to regulations only for providing additional facilities. He argued that the fee details that came in the news were not implemented but were only a 'draft', and that the school has not taken any unnecessary amount from parents as deposit or in other additional titles so far.
Principal Regmi claimed that the school provides special facilities such as Finland's course, digital classroom, and modern furniture, and based on that, the fees have been determined with the consent of the parents.
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